Russell parker



No. 6|3,39|. Patented Nov. I, I898 R. PARKER.

VAGINAL TUBE FOR SYBINGES.

(Application filed Jan. 4, 1898.) N o M o d e l RUSSELL PARKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE PARKER, STEARNS & SUTTON, OF SAME PLACE.

VAGINAL TUBE FOR SYRINGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,391, dated November 1, 1898.

I Application filed anuary 4, 1898. Serial No. 665,579. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: greater capability of resisting flexure pre Be it known that I, RUSSELL PARKER, a citisented in or approximately in the same direczen of the United States, and a resident of tion-for instance, in the example shown in New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings Fig. 2, in which there are three strips or and State of New York, have invented a new springs. Any tendency to bend the tube in and usefulImprovementin Vaginal Tubes for either direct-ion toward the flat sides of the Syringes, of which the following is a specifistrip or spring a as presented will be resistcation; ed by greater dimensions of the two strips or This improvement relates to the tubular atsprings a a being presented in an approxi- 1o tachments for syringes variously known as mately corresponding direction, and in like vaginal tubes and Vaginal irrigators. manner any tendency of the tube to bend in Such tubes or tubular attachments have herethe direction of the least resistance of any tofore been constructed entirely of a comone strip or spring will be met by greater reparatively rigid substance, such as hard vulsistance of the other strips or springs, each I5 canized india-rubber, in order to give them strip or spring thus constituting a brace to such stiffness lengthwise as it is desirable the others. In the example shown in Fig. 3, they should have. in which there are four strips or springs, any

The object of this invention is to obtain a' tendency of the tube to bend in the direction tube or tubular attachment of this kind which of the strips or springs a a is met by the 20 possesses the desirable degree of stiffness greater resistance of a a and vice versa, the

lengthwise without making its walls so rigid greater dimensions of either two opposite as to render them unpleasantly or prejudisprings being presented in the same direction cially hard or unyielding in other directions. as the lesser dimensions of the other two.

I will now proceed first to describe the in- The introduction or incorporation of the 25 vention with reference to the accompanying strips or springs within the soft-rubber walls drawings of a vaginal tube or irrigator emof the tube may be efiected in any manner bodying the invention, and afterward point known in the rubber manufacture for intro- I out its novelty in claims. ducing metal into rubber fabrics. They may Figure 1 in the drawings is a longitudinal be so incorporated loosely or without adhesion 30 view representing the tube with a portion of to the body of the tube either at their ends its exterior broken away to display the imor at any point in their length, thereby perprovement; Fig. 2, a section in the line 2 2 mitting such slight elongation of the tube as of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a transverse sectional may be desirable or unobjectionable in use.

View illustrating a modification. They may extend to the extreme ends of the 3 5 Similar letters of reference designate corretube or terminate near the ends, as shown by sponding parts in all the figures. the dotted representation of them in Fig. 1. A is the tube, which may be and is repre- In carrying out this invention the walls of sented as constructed of soft vulcanized india- -the tube may be made as thin as is necessary rubber of a shape and size corresponding with to give them such softness or yielding quality 0 the hard-rubber tubes of the kind in common in lateral directions as is desirable, as the use. This tube has located lengthwise withthickness which it is necessary that the metal in its walls or body several (not less than strips or springs should have for the purpose three) thin fiat strips a a a a of spring-steel, of my invention is not so great as to require the said springs being at equal distances apart any great thickness of the tube-walls for their 5 and having their fiat sides toward the interincorporation thereinto and their inclosure nal and external circumferences of the tube, therein. so that any tendency to bend the tube in the What I claim as my invention is-- direction of the least dimension of any strip 1. A vaginal tube for a syringe consisting or spring is resisted by others of the strips of a tube of soft flexible material andaseries 50 which have their greater dimensions and of fiat metal strips or springs arranged within FFICE. 4

the Walls of said tube parallel with thelength length for the purpose of giving it longitudithereof and with their fiat sides toward the nal stiffness While permitting its elongation, IO internal and external circumferences of the substantially as herein described. tube, substantially as herein described. 5 2. A vaginal tube for a syringe consisting RUSSELL PARKER of a tube of soft flexible material and a series \Vitnesses: of fiat metal strips or springs arranged loosely FREDK. HAYNES, Within the Walls of said tube parallel with its EDWARD VIESER. 

